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John Bresnahan / Politico:
‘Witness intimidation in real-time’: Democrats see more evidence of Trump obstruction — House Democrats are calling Donald Trump's decision to attack Marie Yovanovitch mid-hearing on Friday a blatant example of witness intimidation, further building the case to charge the president …
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BuzzFeed News:
Twitter Has Suspended Several Accounts Responsible For Tweeting “I Hired Donald Trump To Fire People Like Yovanovitch” — The phrase “I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch” trended on Twitter on Friday morning as Marie Yovanovitch, former US ambassador to Ukraine …
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Mediaite and I Love My Freedom
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Marie Yovanovitch becomes a victim of Trump's thuggishness again in real time — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) began the second day of impeachment hearings calmly and methodically reviewing the career of former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, highlighting her anti-corruption credentials.
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The Atlantic, HuffPost, Washington Monthly and Mother Jones
CBS News:
Ex-Ukraine ambassador says Trump comments “sounded like a threat” — live updates
Ex-Ukraine ambassador says Trump comments “sounded like a threat” — live updates
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ABC News, Mother Jones, Breitbart, TVNewser and Twitchy
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Trump trashes former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during impeachment hearing
Trump trashes former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during impeachment hearing
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New York Times, New Republic and Axios
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Key Takeaways from Marie Yovanovitch's Hearing in the Impeachment Inquiry
Key Takeaways from Marie Yovanovitch's Hearing in the Impeachment Inquiry
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Daily Kos, Mother Jones, The Week, The Mahablog, Portland Mercury and New York Times
New York Times:
Roger Stone Is Found Guilty in Trial That Revived Trump-Russia Saga — Mr. Stone, a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, obstructed one of Congress's Russia investigations and lied to lawmakers. — WASHINGTON — Roger J. Stone Jr., a former aide and longtime friend of President Trump …
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Occupy Democrats, The Moderate Voice, The Daily Caller, Vanity Fair, Slate, Gothamist, Boing Boing, USA Today, The Wrap, Political Wire and Balloon Juice
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Washington Post:
Roger Stone guilty on all counts in federal trial of lying to Congress, witness tampering — A federal jury has convicted longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone of lying to Congress and tampering with a witness about his efforts to learn about the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks release …
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The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, National Review, USA Today, Vox, Above the Law, NPR, Outside the Beltway, The Week, The Stranger, Boing Boing, IJR and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Trump's honesty was on trial in the Roger Stone case. The verdict was harsh. — Analysis: If prosecutors at Roger Stone's trial believed Trump was telling the truth about hacked emails and WikiLeaks, it wasn't evident in the courtroom. — WASHINGTON — In his final statement to the jury …
ABC News:
Roger Stone found guilty on all 7 counts — President Donald Trump's longtime friend and onetime campaign adviser, Roger Stone, was convicted in the only remaining case from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. — Jurors have returned a guilty verdict on all of seven counts including five counts …
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Associated Press, Breitbart and The Daily Beast
Rebecca Davis O'Brien / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ News Exclusive | Federal Prosecutors Probe Giuliani's Links to Ukrainian Energy Projects — Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Rudy Giuliani stood to personally profit from a Ukrainian natural-gas business pushed by two associates who also aided his efforts …
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, POLITICUSUSA, Boing Boing, Daily Kos, Raw Story, The Week and Political Wire
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Impeachment and the Stone Verdict Show Trump Is Surrounded by Criminals
Impeachment and the Stone Verdict Show Trump Is Surrounded by Criminals
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Law & Crime and Shareblue Media
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Defiant Yovanovitch says she was ‘kneecapped’ amid Trump ‘smear campaign’
Defiant Yovanovitch says she was ‘kneecapped’ amid Trump ‘smear campaign’
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The Daily Caller, NBC News, New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Breitbart, Shareblue Media and The Daily Beast
Axios:
Read Adam Schiff's opening statement in the Yovanovitch impeachment hearing
Read Adam Schiff's opening statement in the Yovanovitch impeachment hearing
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One America News Network, Washington Post, Breitbart and The Hill
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Transcript Shows WH Made Up Details of Trump's Zelensky Call — The transcript released on Friday doesn't even mention the word “corruption.” — The release of the transcript of President Donald Trump's first call in April with Ukrainain president-elect Volodomyr Zelensky was meant …
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The Daily Beast:
The Conspiracy Theory So Far Out There Even Trump's Biggest Defenders Are Walking Away From It — When President Donald Trump brought up the word “Crowdstrike” on his now-infamous July 25 phone call with Ukraine's president, he caused some head-scratching in Kyiv.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
‘He does nothing without a quid pro quo’
‘He does nothing without a quid pro quo’
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Outside the Beltway, Raw Story, Axios and Mediaite
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Zelensky planned to announce Trump's ‘quo’ on my show. Here's what happened.
Zelensky planned to announce Trump's ‘quo’ on my show. Here's what happened.
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Mother Jones, Daily Kos and The Resurgent
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Why Fox News has gone wobbly on anti-Semitism — Circumstances have conspired to create a once-in-a-lifetime laboratory test for the integrity of Fox News. The results aren't encouraging. — Sample No. 1: In October 2018, Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch appeared on the Fox Business show …
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Washington Examiner and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Hannity Predicts Marie Yovanovitch Will Cry ‘on Cue’ at Hearing — “I would say apparently she cried and the Democrats are apparently hoping she will cry again tomorrow,” Hannity asserted on the eve of her testimony. — On the eve of Friday's open impeachment hearing featuring former U.S. Ambassador …
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The Hill, Politico, ABC News and Contemptor
Washington Post:
Trump appeals to Supreme Court again, this time to block House committee's subpoena seeking his financial records — For the second day in a row, President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to protect his personal and business financial records from disclosure, this time to a congressional committee.
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One America News Network, Political Wire, Bangor Daily News and HuffPost
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Wall Street Journal:
How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results — The internet giant uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and an army of contractors to shape what you see — Every minute, an estimated 3.8 million queries are typed into Google, prompting its algorithms to spit …
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The Daily Caller, National Review and Twitchy
NBC News:
New Warren plan splits Medicare for All into two bills, preserves private plans at first — WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., released her plan for transitioning the country to a Medicare For All health care system Friday, splitting the effort into two legislative pushes …
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David Byler / Washington Post:
Deval Patrick and Michael Bloomberg aren't the disrupters some Democrats are looking for
Deval Patrick and Michael Bloomberg aren't the disrupters some Democrats are looking for
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David Harsanyi / National Review:
Nothing Democrats Are Proposing in Washington Will Stop Mass Shootings in California — Here is Senator Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) moments after a suicidal 16-year old murdered two of his classmates in Santa Clarita, California: … California has already passed a “universal background check” law.
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Mother Jones, NB Blog, CNN and KTLA
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
‘No discipline. No plan. No strategy.’: Kamala Harris campaign in meltdown — BALTIMORE — Kamala Harris' campaign is careening toward a crackup. — As the California senator crisscrosses the country trying to revive her sputtering presidential bid, aides at her fast-shrinking headquarters …
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Warren details how she'd transition country to ‘Medicare for All’ — Sen. Elizabeth Warren rolled out a new piece of her “Medicare for All” plan on Friday, detailing how she would transition the nation to a fully government run, single-payer health system. — Instead of trying to pass …
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Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the single leading source of anti-vax ads on Facebook — Researchers dig into Facebook's ad library. — Just two organizations were responsible for the majority of anti-vaccine advertisements on Facebook before the social media giant restricted such content in March of this year …
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The Guardian
Jolie McCullough / The Texas Tribune:
Texas parole board recommends Greg Abbott delay Rodney Reed execution — The board's recommendation goes to Gov. Greg Abbott, who can reject or accept it. … The fate of death row inmate Rodney Reed has been placed in Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's hands.
Ian Mohr / Page Six:
Donald Trump Jr.'s book sales may have been boosted by bulk buys — Donald Trump Jr.'s new book hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list this week — “but with a big caveat,” book insiders noted. — The tome, “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants To Silence Us,” shot to the top of the Times' nonfiction list.
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The Guardian, Boing Boing and Raw Story
The New York Times Company:
Elaina Plott Joining Politics — A gifted long-form writer and a high-metabolism reporter, Elaina Plott has covered the White House for The Atlantic. Read more in this note from Patrick Healy. — I'm pleased to announce that Elaina Plott of The Atlantic is joining the Politics desk of The Times to cover the 2020 campaign.
Grace Segers / CBS News:
Maryland congressman condemns “moral degeneration” of GOP behavior in impeachment inquiry — Congressman Jamie Raskin is condemning the “moral degeneration” of Republicans in his assessment of their conduct during the impeachment inquiry of President Trump.